July 16, 2012
Dear Family!
Well, things are going
pretty well for us this week. We had ward conference in Bairro Novo, so we had
a ton of people at church. It was cool, I went with the 1st councilor in the
Bishopric in his car to go and visit all of our investigators and bring them to
church (Only one of them ended up going, but we did our part!). Besides this, a
lot of members brought friends to church. We ended up having about 10
investigators at church, which is a record for me. It was way cool, and the
sacrament meeting and classes were really special. Bishop Barros gave a really
good talk about charity and service. There were a lot of ex-investigators that
came to church too, and some of them I got the chance to talk to and mark
visits with them again. This part was cool. Among these ex-investigators was
Daniel, who I taught way back with Elder Brino. He told me that he wanted to go
to this Church from now on. We passed by his house later that night, retaught
him the Restoration, and gave him another Book of Mormon, and he told us that
we would definitely read this time. It was cool.
We had a special
training on Thursday for Leaders, and I got to see Elder Barkdull and Elder
Hobbs. They are doing great, although the two were sad that they didn´t get to
finish training their missionaries. The training was about the Book of Mormon.
Man I can´t get enough of this book. I got sooo excited that I bought a
hard-back Book of Mormon that I’m going to mark up a ton. I´m stoked for all
the crazy revelation I’m going to receive.
So I finally got the
package today! Thanks a ton, I especially liked all the candy. And I did get
the camera and USB stuff. It came through fine. Oh, and I did think of
something that you can send me in my birthday package.... HOT CHOCOLATE! I love
it.
I´ll have one more week
in this area (maybe, I still don´t know if I’ll be transferred. But I hope so,
I want to get to know more than one area), and you´ll be happy to know that
I’ve been taking a lot of pictures recently. Elder Little and I cleaned the
house today, and after we got done cleaning, I took a bunch of pictures of our
house, along with some hamburgers we cooked, and brownies too. I also want to
take some pictures of some members here, there are some really cool families
here that I don´t want to forget.
So I have been thinking
a bit about what I want to do next year. I think I’ll probably get home like
September 7 or something like that, i don´t know how well that works with BYU.
But I want to continue studying there, and currently I’m thinking about
studying Economics or something like that. I don´t know, I just really enjoyed
my economy class, and I thought it´d be something cool to study. I don´t really
have anything else in my mind at the moment about when I get home... Except like
watch the new Avatar and go visit that Portuguese section of San Jose and talk
to them. Those are basically my only plans.
Well, I’ve got to run,
but I hope you guys are doing well, and you have a good week in Utah! I´m
keeping you all in my prayers. Continue praying for me.
Love,
Elder Twitchell
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